Candace Rogers Student Paper Award

The winner of the 2016 Candace Rogers Award for The Most Outstanding Paper by a Graduate Student is Heba Gowayed of Princeton University for her paper “Who Pays for Child Education? How Poor Egyptian Mothers Finance Their Children’s Learning”. Honorable Mention was given to Robert Riggs of New York University for his paper titled “A Little Help From Prison Friends: Networks and Post-Incarceration”.

The Candace Rogers Award Committee invites submissions for the 2017 Candace Rogers Award. This award is given annually at the ESS meeting to a graduate student for an outstanding paper on any current social issue. The paper should be in a style suitable for publication in a professional journal and should not exceed 35 double-spaced pages, including tables and references; papers over that length will not be considered. The paper may not be previously published or forthcoming in a professional journal. It may not be coauthored, and its author must be a graduate student at the time the paper is submitted.

The award will be announced and presented at a special session at the annual meeting which will be in Philadelphia, PA, February 23-26, 2017. The recipient must be an ESS member at the time the award is presented and is expected to be at the meeting to receive the award. Eligible students should submit an electronic version of their paper by October 31, 2016 to the committee chair. No papers submitted after this date will be accepted for any reason.